Enabling and Managing Office 365 (20347A)

This is a 5-day instructor-led training (ILT) course that targets the needs of IT professionals who take part in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating Office 365 services, including its identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. This course focuses on skills required to set up an Office 365 tenant, including federation with existing user identities, and skills required to sustain an Office 365 tenant and its users.

Audience profileThis course will provide experienced IT professionals with the training that they need to plan, configure, and manage an Office 365 environment. Students who attend this course are expected to have a fairly broad understanding of several on-premises technologies such as Domain Name System (DNS) and AD DS, and a general understanding of Exchange Server, Microsoft Lync Server or Skype for Business Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Server.

This course also is intended as preparation material for IT professionals who are looking to take the exams 70-346: Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements and 70-347: Enabling Office 365 Services to obtain the MCSA: Office 365 certification.

Prerequisites

A minimum of two years of experience administering the Windows Server operating system, including Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2.

A minimum of one year of experience working with AD DS.A minimum of one year of experience working with name resolution, including DNS.

Experience working with certificates, including public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates.

Experience working with Windows PowerShell.Experience working with Exchange Server 2013 or later, Lync Server 2013 or Skype for Business Server 2015, and SharePoint Server 2013 or later is beneficial but not required.

At course completionAfter completing this course, students will be able to:

Module 1: Planning and provisioning Microsoft Office 365This module reviews the features of Office 365 and identifies recent improvements to the service. Also it describes how to configure an Office 365 tenant and plan for a pilot deployment.

Module 3: Configuring client connectivity to Microsoft Office 365This module describes the different types of client software that you can use to connect to Office 365, and the infrastructure requirements that the clients need to meet to connect to Office 365. Also this teaches you how to configure different types of Office 365 clients.

Module 5: Planning and deploying Office 2016 ProPlusThis module covers the planning process, how to make Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus directly available to end users, and how to deploy it as a managed package. Finally, this module covers how to set up Office telemetry so that administrators can keep track of how users are interacting with Microsoft Office.

Overview of Office 365 ProPlus

Planning and managing user-driven Office 365 ProPlus deployments

Planning and managing centralized deployments of Office 365 ProPlus

Module 6: Planning and managing Exchange Online recipients and permissionsThis module describes Exchange Online and explains how to create and manage recipient objects and how to manage and delegate Exchange security.

Overview of Exchange Online

Managing Exchange Online recipients

Planning and configuring Exchange Online permissions

Module 7: Planning and configuring Microsoft Exchange Online servicesThis module describes how to plan and configure Exchange Online services. It also explains how to plan and configure anti-malware and anti-spam settings in Office 365.

Planning and configuring email flow in Office 365

Planning and configuring email protection in Office 365

Planning and configuring client access policies

Migrating to Exchange Online

Module 8: Planning and deploying Skype for Business OnlineThis module describes how to plan and implement the Skype for Business Online deployment. Also it describes how to plan voice integration with Skype for Business Online.

Planning and configuring Skype for Business Online service settings

Configuring Skype for Business Online users and client connectivity

Planning voice integration with Skype for Business Online

Module 9: Planning and configuring SharePoint OnlineThis module describes the administrative features available within SharePoint Online and the most common configuration tasks for any administrator who starts using SharePoint Online. Also it describes the concept of site collections and the different sharing options within SharePoint Online. A brief overview of additional portals, such as the video portal, are also provided.

Configuring SharePoint Online services

Planning and configuring SharePoint site collections

Planning and configuring external user sharing

Module 10: Planning and configuring a Office 365 collaboration solutionThis module describes how to plan and implement a SharePoint collaboration solution, and how to enable Yammer Enterprise services within Office 365 and OneDrive for Business, and Office 365 groups.

Planning and managing Yammer Enterprise

Planning and configuring OneDrive for Business

Configuring Office 365 groups

Module 11: Planning and configuring rights management and complianceThis module describes the compliance features in Office 365 and explains how to manage them. Also it describes how to plan and configure Microsoft Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS). Additionally it discusses the security features in Office 365.